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MNG had this to say,

As long as the PNG Group rejects APNG and W3C doesn’t support APNG, it’s going nowhere. The standards were already set in MNG and it worked in Mozilla Suite just fine, but Mozilla had to be difficult and removed MNG support just to save a measly 300kb in filesize, setting good quality animated images years back because of stubborn misguided views.

Hope everyone enjoys using GIF for a long time.

nemo had this to say,

Not only does the APNG hack do little that couldn’t be done with a few lines of javascript and a background-image PNG, it doesn’t support JNG, something that wastes a lot more space on the web every day than those 300kb back then (yes, even if fallbacks were needed for IE, which will need them for APNG *anyway*).

But yes, it is certainly true that those folks supporting APNG were instrumental in finding excuses to kill off MNG.

nemo had this to say,

Well, APNG is not directly involved, I’m just noting the Mozilla decision to eliminated MNG which had a great deal to do with this “lack of popularity” was driven by advocates of the just as unpopular but even more useless APNG.

Photoman had this to say,

APNG would take off like a rocket if it embraced all the folks with pocket video cameras. Imagine taking a photo but instead it lasts 3-7 seconds long. If people could take mini-clips with their iphones and pocket cameras and upload them to be viewed as easily as jpegs it would change the world of photography. Shoot it and share it.

What it needs is a limit on play time. 7 seconds or less. And a name that’s catchy.. “microvid” only much better than that.

Sure you can do all that with Video. But that’s a workaround to sharing an album of snapshots that move just like it was an album of photos.

Every mom would jump on board in a heartbeat because posting a 5 second clip of her 2 year-old blowing bubbles to youtube is kind of obnoxious and not worth the effort. But sharing a photo is something we do every day.